What is recorded here

Duns Castle is a Gothic house in the Scottish Borders that still contains a massive Norman keep said to date from 1320, although architectural historians place that visible stone work in the 15th or 16th century. It has belonged to the Hay family since 1698, and its grounds hold two man-made lakes now used as a nature reserve. The castle may have been damaged during the Rough Wooing in 1545, when the nearby town of Duns was burned, but it survived to become a wedding venue where guests still walk past stones that have watched border wars, ownership changes and seasonal life along the same land.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Duns Castle as Landscape (post Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Duns Castle was built in the late 15th or early 16th century by the Hume family, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is remembered as a significant example of late medieval domestic architecture in the Borders region.

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